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Deal or no deal? Gris may be buying a new computer!
2010-07-14, 6:53 PM #1
I need to torpedo my social life ;). Is this a good deal? I've not had any experience with Lenovo for desktops, but I'm willing to give them a try. I'm consciously making the decision not to build my own this time.

Lenovo K320 (with all options):

Intel Core i7-860 Processor ( 2.80GHz 1333MHz 8MB )
NVIDIA GeForce G320
Memory: 8 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz
Disk: 1TB 7200

$923

I also want to get the Saitek Cyborg PK17U keyboard :P

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2010-07-14, 11:49 PM #2
Struggling to work out what the heck a G320 is, but I suspect it is not very good. Also, for DDR3 RAM, your ram is fairly slow. 8GB is more than you are at all likely to use, though you might one day end up using more than 4 (which is why I like triple channel RAM on LGA1366, giving you 6GB, but that's not terribly relevant here).

I don't suppose the motherboard supplied with that PC will allow you to overclock the CPU either. Which is a shame because you could get close to 4GHz without too much trouble using a 3rd party cooler... or maybe say 3.4GHz on the stock cooler.

Sorry, perhaps that wasn't all that helpful - I guess I have mainly revealed that I think you really ought to be building it yourself :P
2010-07-15, 8:56 AM #3
I don't know what that keyboard is, but I'm partial to Unicomp mechanical keyboards. I don't know anything else about computers, the last time I bought/built one was >4 years ago.
2010-07-15, 1:37 PM #4
Seems like a decent deal. Having trouble finding much information on that videocard, maybe its the GT320?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_320_us.html

If it is, performance should be around a 9600gt.
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2010-07-15, 4:56 PM #5
What the hell is a g320?
That computer (other then possible that video card) is way better then mine. :(

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